The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-10
miscellaneous.

! win NdiO Vet IiilicH ABOUT lnti 80 IOu9
as it is fashiOnable--Ciicago Mail.
Mary Magdalen. the fair sinner
with her penitential tears. who has been
n favorite theme of the painters for
centuries, gave the word ''maudlin" to
our English neutrality-suspicious. Budget.
1t is said that the streams pene-
trating the Gogebic iron range near the
south shore of Lake Superior are so
black with discoloration from the ore
that fish can not live in them.
A man can "get high" by going to
Denver. 1t is 5.175 feet above the sea
level. and the highest State capital in
the Union. Annapolis. Nd, is the
lowest. being just four feet above the
sea level.
"A Missouri sheriff went home in
disguise in the evening 20 see if his wife
would scare. She fired three shots ut
him so promptly that he dropped his
experiment and began looking for the
end of one of his fingers.
Heard in society: He-'I beg Your
pardon, miss, but l don't admire Your
last name" She Great heavens,
man, haven't done every thing in my
power to change it? Must knock
man down with a club" Washington
Critic.
1t seems that boa constructors are
brought to this country to I'LL engage
ment, just like other foreign stars.
Their exceptional experience is that they
are never interviewed. He would be a
bold reporter who should ask boa con-
strictOr what were his impressions OF
America.
john Harrigan and his rope have
become famous in San Francisco. With
the same piece of rope John has pulled
twenty-eight people out of the water in
the last three years. His best days
work in this line was done about year
ago, when he fished three children and
tramp out of the water
The number of dwellings in Jeru-
salem has doubled in twenty-five years,
the schools are open five days n week.
lie
railways run past Queen Anne cottages.
Bethlehem has had its streets repayed.
Nazareth is a good oil market. There
is considerable activity in real estate
around Mount Carmel and Jaffa.
The Crematorial Association OF
Philadelphia is preparing to build the
largest and costliest crematory chapel in
the world. 1t will have front of sixty
six feet, depth of 1O5 feet; the dis
lance will be ninety feet to the top of
the dome, the material will be granite,
pressed red brick and terra Gotta, and
the cost will be $4,000.
Such things still happen in Missis-
sippi, it appears, as whipping negroes
to death, for ut place called Koscius-
ko the mayor has bound over four
white men for that business, and held
four others to bail. Strong influence
was brought to bear to prevent Il pros
ecution, but it has no effect upon the
officers, who are determined to put a
stop to this species of lawlessness. ..
PCOpiC Tic lIllS-
take in regarding 1.-THE home" as the
house they live in. Now house NAV
be ever so costly and luxurious, and
contain very few of the qualities
which endear the place to the occu-
pants. To be home in its truest
sense, love and peace and the thousand
little nameless attendants upon love
must abide there. 1t is thus that often
the poor cottage is more of "a home"
than Il palace. Chicago Inter Ocean.
William Schaefer, farmer near st.
Louis, had in mind to fell large elm
on his land, when he met some CITY
spOrtsmen out after rabbits. He made
fun of such small game, and said that
coons were the things to hunt They
wanted to know where cOons could be
found. He told of a nest in the bio
elm. Thereupon the St. Louis bows
borrowed axes and went at the tree.
They cut it down, encouraged by Mr.
Schaefer, who seemed greatly surprised
that no coOns were found.
Mrs. Lima Swalfield, of Beverly, |
Mass. who mas recently been taken to !
Florida by her husband, who hopes that /
change of scene and climate will restore
her to sanity, is the victim of practical |
joke. A few weeks ago her husband |
joined hunting party. On the way
home one of the party hurried in adj |
vance and told Mrs. Swaffield that her |
husband had been shot and killed. She |
tainted, remained unconscious for sew
eral hours, and when she regained con-
seriousness was insane-BOStOH Herald. |
"A farmers daughter during the
rage for albums handed to Willis Gay
lord Clarke, an American poet, an old |
account book ruled for pounds, shillings
and pence, and requested Il contribution
He happily utilized the columns as fol-
lows:
This worlds q scene as dark as Styx |
Where hope is scarce wOrth.......... lie
Our Joys are borne so fleeing hence. |
That they are dear at..-........-..... Is |
And yet to stay here most are willing |
Although they may not have. 1T !
Pail Mall Gazette.
Ten years ago Thomas F. Clark
jOkingly gave Miss Julia A. Malcolm, of
New Haven. a deed of certain Colorado
lands, which he thought to be value
less. She said that she'd keep the doc
ument to remember him by, locked it
up, and has since been earning her liv-
ing teaching school. The other dav
she received Il letter from Colorado.